February 4, 2025

 

Exposure Lighting is pleased to announce that it is acquiring substantially all the assets of Swaney Lighting Associates, Inc. (“Swaney”).  

Exposure Lighting will adopt the Swaney Lighting brand name in Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont and will be known as Swaney Lighting Associates in the Northern Territory, but will continue on as Exposure Lighting throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

By merging the Exposure team of Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont with the Swaney team, the new, combined Swaney Lighting business is the leading full line, architectural, and commercial specification grade lighting and controls agency in its market.

Shawn Swaney – President, Rick Lilly – Principal, Chris Pechalk – Principal and Stephen Swaney as well as all other Swaney Lighting and Exposure Lighting existing employees will be retained under the new Swaney Lighting Associates.

“I am pleased to announce that Swaney Lighting Associates – the company I founded 34 years ago – is joining forces with Exposure,” said Shawn Swaney. “I’ve spent much of my professional career serving the lighting community of Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont and will continue to direct, along with Chris Pechalk and Rick Lilly, the larger, combined Swaney Lighting to solidify and expand our leading position. This partnership affords Swaney an excellent line card to better serve our customers.”

“We are very excited,” said Richard Worthy, owner of ESS/Exposure. “For decades, Shawn’s been a highly successful founder, leader, and incredible force in the upper New England region. Swaney has great brand recognition, a very strong team, and we believe that combining both our businesses under the Swaney brand will allow us to have 16 highly committed and qualified lighting industry personnel in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont making us significantly larger than the next closest competitor. I am very proud and honored that Shawn chose us to partner with.”

All Swaney employees will continue to serve customers from the two locations in the region:

PO Box 1597, Scarborough, ME 04070 | (207-883-7100)

&

501 Islington Street, Unit 1A, Portsmouth, NH  03801 | (603.601.8080)

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